My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

tted her startled chest, exhaling a relieved breath, “What a coincidence, I finally managed to get a break from the film set, and here you are!”

“It’s only ten o’clock, still early. Can I come over to your place for some late–night snacks?”

“What are you holding? Do you have work tonight?”

It had been days since she last saw him, and upon seeing him, Xanthea chattered joyfully, only to notice after a while that the man in front of her had a dark, ominous look on his face, his presence chilling like eternal ice, sending a shiver down her spine.

“Orion, what’s wrong? Did something upset you?”

“So everyone can, but not me, is that it?”

Orion looked at her; his gaze was piercing and cold, reminiscent of the chilling sharpness when he first saw her body in that old crypt.

Xanthea was both puzzled and frightened by his stare, “What do you mean by ‘can‘ or ‘cannot‘? Orion, what are you talking about?”

he didn’t answer her, brushing past her with a chill that felt like a blade slicing through her cheek. As

In the middle of the night?” Orion turned around, his dark eyes suddenly bursting with a

by his shout, with a look of total bewilderment on

was he calling her Ms. Nightshade

seems to be “secret rendezvous with a man in the middle

and. She quickly realized what he meant–could

think she brought Benjamin to Sunset Hills Estates for a secret rendezvous, and

are

“Bang, bang, bang!”

“Bang, bang, bany!”

shouting, “Hey, Orion, come out

is that considered

was just here to discuss the script with me, and you twisted it into an affair?

head before leaving was weird.